Show supervisor urges forest protection i national pire prevention week aleek which Is observed annually has been proclaimed for the week of october 0 to 15 thus a n full week Is sot set apart during which millions of f people of the nation can study the hazards of fire which annually cause millions of dollars lit in losses of li hoine onies cities and forests an analysis of the fire records of the powell forest for the sea son of 1035 indicates that 76 70 per cent of the total number of fires reported were man caused of a total of 13 fires man was waa responsible for 10 the analysis further shows that ranchers and stockmen stoc kmen were responsible for 50 per cent fishermen 10 per cent hunters 10 per cent and people traveling through the forest classed na as travelers 80 30 per cent 52 per cent of the costs plus damages charge ahlo able to ranchers ran chera and stockmen stoc kmen en of the number of fires for which stoc stockmen kmen and ranchers wore were responsible ree 80 per cent were e caused by smoking 10 per cent by debris burning and 10 per cent by camp fires each year millions of ollars dollars worth of timber la Is lost in the na tion through fires started by ma ina or ea reles a and nd the pride of the forest tile the towering pines that flint afford building refuse for go game nud atia beautiful recreation spots are reduced to VI piles les of ashes g in their stead only a desolate blackened w waste as t I 1 it Is hoped that during this fire prevention week the pill public aie will take n few minutes lites of its time hill to study the terrible condill conditions ons that follow forest fires in tho the forest IN when blell tile OutI outlaw nw r enemy alemy no it 1 Is nt at largo large lit in tile the country humanity suffers suffer s atilid when aben tile the demon fire la is turned loose in the forests nil all life suffers the 1110 forest Is your playground where you go 0 o hunting ting or fishing or where you take your family faintly for it n days or a weeks outing protect it with all your our might W within athin a f few ew days after tho the publication li of this information thousands of hunters including men women and boys will be tramp tramping ing 1 on last pae S supervisor r urges F forest orest protection continued from page ono one through tile forests striving to bug bag their annual antlered trophy f forgetting ol 01 getting in their gront great fill 11 laws of tive decency ency am AH it result ninny ity of their number will never return and hundreds of cost costly fires will bo be caret carelessly started 11 specially during this hunting should grout great care with fire bo be exercised tile forests anro very arry try dry and it vilgil hazard exists title duo to dry grasses aliel fulling falling leaves it lives an ali abandoned ulindo ind fire loft left fit at sumo eineo or in a lighted or elgar tossed cor carolei oleI Y into nn an ill fill in me bunch of grass or dry leaves fully start a raging forest fire an ali earnest appeal Is ande to nil all hunters liun tora niia smokers fo follow the rules set act out mid and stressed by tile forest deport depart Ili elit such auch restrictions strict ions will lesson lessen efi sAlti aclid tile lie forests wilt will bo be preserved preserve at campgrounds or lit in the woods see to it flat every vestige of fire Is destroyed every cigarette butt live heeled leI into the ground and campgrounds arc anro neatly lpt kat thus perpetual 1180 of algell places these on oil your inland during fire prevention week |